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Word: strike
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Meaning:
Noun:
- bowling the act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame
- a blow or application of physical force against something
- An old English measure of corn equal to the bushel.
- a work stoppage
- baseball a status resulting from a batter swinging and missing a pitch, or not swinging at a pitch in the strike zone, or hitting a foul ball that is not caught
- cricket the status of being the batsman that the bowler is bowling at
- finance In an option contract, the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise the option.
- the primary face of a hammer, opposite the peen
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Verb:
- intransitive To stop working to achieve better working conditions.
- nautical To capitulate: to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
- nautical To haul down, or lower a mast, a flag or cargo, etc.
- ''(theatrical)'' To dismantle and take away the set; (''strike the set'')
- transitive Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.
- transitive To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
- transitive To hit.
- transitive To impress, seem or appear (to).
- transitive To manufacture, as by stamping.
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